Leah Braden stared at her hands. They were smooth and white and soft, scented by the expensive lotion she used. When she raised her head, her eyes fell upon the dark head of her husband across the dining table.

"Coffee?" she said.

He didn't look up from his newspaper. "No, thank you."

"Some bacon then?"

"No."

A moment later, she tried again. "It's a nice day outside."

He only pursed his lips. Something in the Wall Street Journal apparently had caught his eye. His ever present cell phone sat next to him, but for once it didn't ring.

Leah watched him. He was a handsome man, her husband. Most men at his age acquired a paunch and a girlfriend, but none of that for him. His hair was still a dark brown and his body still athletic. She had no cause to complain. Not on that score anyway.

"I'm going to leave," she blurted out.

"You do that."

"I don't think you understand. I'm leaving you."

He lowered his newspaper. "Oh?" he said. "Running away again?"

I have been plagiarized fourteen times in the last two weeks. For this reason I am taking down everything but the first chapter for my long stories, so I can preserve my timestamps and prove that I wrote the stories first. If you guys need more information, please refer to the plagiarism notes for my long stories. I am now in the process of taking down this one-shot.